Characterization in the early fiction of Gabriel Garcia Marquez / Richard Cardwell --
Beware of gift-bearing tales : reading 'Baltazar's prodigious afternoon' according to Marcel Mauss / Eduardo Gonzalez --
The body as political instrument : communication in No one writes to the colonel / Rene Prieto --
Magical realism and the theme of incest in One hundred years of solitude / Edwin Williamson --
Translation and genealogy : One hundred years of solitude / Anibal Gonzalez --
The humour of One hundred years of solitude / Clive Griffin --
On 'magical' and social realism in Garcia Marquez / Gerald Martin --
Aspects of narrative structure in The incredible and sad story of the innocent Erendira and her heartless grandmother / Mark Millington --
Language and power in The autumn of the patriarch / Jo Labanyi --
Writing and ritual in Chronicle of a death foretold / Carlos Alonso --
Free-play of fore-play : the fiction of non-consummation : speculations on Chronicle of a death foretold / Bernard McGuirk --
A prospective post-script : apropos of Love in the times of Cholera / Robin Fiddian --
The solitude of Latin America : Nobel address 1982 / Gabriel Garcia Marquez, translated by Richard Cardwell.